Education & Events

Are you a healthcare professional looking to strengthen your palliative care skills?

The Champlain Hospice Palliative Care Program supports healthcare professionals in accessing free high quality education through developing and delivering the following annual educational series:

OUR COURSES

thursday evening series

Thursday evening series on various topics in palliative care.

Dining to learn

Continuing education series on Palliative Care topics for long-term care. These interactive sessions are an opportunity to learn from and with colleagues.

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PRACTICAL CAREGIVER TRAINING

We provide the materials for healthcare organizations to run their own sessions for caregivers.

LEAP

Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care (LEAP) is for healthcare professionals who wish to learn palliative care skills.

GRIEF & BEREAVEMENT

Workshops that discuss Death Thought Systems, normalizing grief, grief theories, communication strategies, and more.

Education Day

A day of amazing speakers and workshops on palliative care topics.

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Canadian Serious Illness Conversations

Increase confidence in your ability to lead serious illness conversations.

University students study in a classroom with male lecturer

self-compassion

Practice experiential self-compassion activities and exercises.

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Wellness Day for the Healthcare Community

Wellness Day is an annual online event that takes place in November.

Advance Care Planning

Workshops offered to healthcare organizations that discuss informed consent, substitute decision making and conversations about values, wishes, and beliefs.